Hellfire Pass, Kanchanaburi

Hellfire Pass is an infamous railway cutting built by prisoners-of-war on forced labor under the Japanese in Thailand. It is on the Death Railway in Kanchanaburi Province.

The Hellfire Pass got its name due to the sheer difficulty in cutting the section through the rocks for the tailway. This, the general remoteness of the place, the lack of proper tools, claimed many lives including Australian, British, Dutch and other Allied prisoners-of-wars as well as labourers from Malaya, all of whom suffered the same treatment under the Japanese.

The purpose of Hellfire Pass was to create a railway line from Thailand into Burma. No trains travel along that line today. Now tourists can travel as far as Nam Tok railway station, crossing the bridge over the River Kwai to Kanchanaburi, the nearest major town.

Hellfire Pass, Kanchanaburi, with memorials to those who perished
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hellfire_Pass_-_June_2004.jpg
Diliff

 Latest updates on Penang Travel Tips

Map of Roads in Penang

Looking for information on Penang? Use this Map of Roads in Penang to zoom in on information about Penang, brought to you road by road.

Disclaimer

Please use the information on this page as guidance only. The author endeavours to update the information on this page from time to time, but regrets any inaccuracies if there be any.

About this website

Hello and thanks for reading this page. My name is Timothy and my hobby is in describing places so that I can share the information with the general public. My website has become the go to site for a lot of people including students, teachers, journalists, etc. whenever they seek information on places, particularly those in Malaysia and Singapore. I have been doing this since 5 January 2003, for over twenty years already. You can read about me at Discover Timothy. By now I have compiled information on thousands of places, mostly in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, and I continue to add more almost every day. My goal is to describe every street in every town in Malaysia and Singapore.